Natural Gas

• Facts:

  • produces fewest emissions
  • formed from decomposing plants/animals over millions of years
• Found:

  • large cracks/spaces in rock layers
  • tiny pores in sedimentary rock
  • Russia, Iran and Qatar have largest reserves
  • extracted via fracking
• Advantages:

  • easily transported via tanks/pipes
  • extraction risks are lower
  • fewer emissions
  • lower costs
• Disadvantages:

  • fracking contaminates groundwater supplies and increases tectonic activity (earthquakes)
  • produces greenhouse gases
  • storing gas is expensive (larger volume)
  • main reserves are in conflicted/politically unstable countries